Help a n00b get into the best of Paradinas in this thread

Please and thank you.

He's a tricky one. Every album has some super crazy good tracks, and some pretty bland ones. Lunatic harness is probably my favorite album of his

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u494fj_4Iks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUBVPckOr2U

I'd recommend Tango N Vectif and Lunatic Harness first.

Both are classics, full of stunning melodies.

TNV is from 1993 and still sound damn fresh and inventive/innovative, timeless music.

LH is heavily influenced by jungle, and is the perfect blend between complex yet smooth beat and beautiful synth driven music.

Then Bluff Limbo and Brace Yourself, both being sister releases to the aforementioned albums. Fantastic releases as well.

Then whatever you feel like to.

His most recent LP, Duntisbourne... is quite different from his other releases. Really different mood, much more depressing and bitter. But if/when you get into it, it's a grower.

Bilious Paths has some amazing tunes in it, such as Johnny Maastritch, Meinheld, Siege/Fall of Antioch and My Menegegus.

His Auteurs remix album is also quite a weird one. I quite like it too.

I rarely listen to Royal Astronomy, Salsa with Mesquite and In Pine Effect, even if I love some of their tracks, like Autumn Acid, Phiesope...

Some great tunes released as Kid Spatula too. I've never listened that much to his Gary Moscheles / Jake Slazenger stuffs.

Oh and also check his Frost Jockey alias.

And he's a great remixer too.

Damn, he's so prolific !

these are good

As others have said, he's truly a master at making melodies.

This is one of my favorite tracks ever, it's so funky and goofy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l70g-CGAn4

Also:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUDnaa_CYdw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjKRwtYJzBA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5xuJBVSVQo

In regards to the order, I agree with Iin.

Though I would also include his collaboration with Aphex Twin: Mike & Rich - Expert Knob Twiddlers (Rephlex). It is a really funny album.

IMHO, Royal Astronomy & Duntisbourne... are his less interesting works. Royal... was too cheesy for me, probably his first go with Pop. And for Duntisbourne..., I could never tell the single tracks apart from each other. For me it felt like he was turning in circles on this record.

Gary Moscheles is cheesy as well but in a funky way. It's sort of Easy Electronic Listening. Jake Slazenger goes more in the direction of Electro Funk.

There is definitely much to discover. Enjoy it.

hasty boom alert

  On 9/9/2012 at 12:57 PM, Mcdergbit said:

these are good

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqOkMtQOD0c

 

That was great.

Has he done more like this?

despite the other reviews of it, i loved Royal Astronomy. it was the first paradinas album I heard, and i really dug the weird future/medieval/hip hop combinations throughout the whole thing. I'd recommend a noob start with Lunatic Harness though.

@Npoess - check out the Kid Spatula release Full Sunken Breaks. there are some other tunes like that one sprinkled throughout it. great stuff!

  On 9/9/2012 at 2:03 PM, Gravity said:

This is one of my favorite tracks ever, it's so funky and goofy.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l70g-CGAn4

slazenger

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Some of my favorites... Especially the breakdown on catkin and teasel at 3:25....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss8U_6qGqTU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T7JhPjGPCE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZG1GADK3tE

Urmur Bile is my personal favorite release of his... It came out around Lunatic Harness if I'm not mistaken?

oh and this one from 1995

nice one troon, hadn't heard tht one

and pls take your time to listen to these tracks...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDc9lp5XbdM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWlozOXZLZE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBM8W4e4uj8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L9kH6MsXlY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS5xACmugTE

  On 9/9/2012 at 9:50 PM, impotentwhitecapitalist said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS5xACmugTE

oh', how i do love, these frost jockey bits

Damn, I forgot to mention Slag Boom Van Loon. Can't find a link to Poppy Seed (the original, not the BoC Remix), what a stunning tune.

broccoli

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Tusken Raiders

  On 9/9/2012 at 9:41 PM, asymmetrical head said:

Urmur Bile is my personal favorite release of his... It came out around Lunatic Harness if I'm not mistaken?

Absolutely right. Completely forgot about it. I just listened to it about 2 months ago. It's still brilliant, stripped down, funky D&B from µ-Ziq. The way he reinterpretes his own beats from the Tango & Vectif album on some of the Urmur Bile Trax is just great.

  On 9/10/2012 at 3:21 PM, lin said:

Damn, I forgot to mention Slag Boom Van Loon. Can't find a link to Poppy Seed (the original, not the BoC Remix), what a stunning tune.

Hm, Slag Boom Van Loon (a collab with Speedy J) has something to it. I was thinking about selling the vinyl but decided against selling after listening to it again. There are some weak moments though but also some real beasts.

  On 9/9/2012 at 9:24 PM, Redruth said:

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Wow, hadn't heard this one! So great!

  On 9/9/2012 at 9:39 PM, StephenG said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T7JhPjGPCE

This is pretty much THE perfect video to accompany this track; brilliant!

'Within A Sound' has always been a favorite of mine (from 'In Pine Effect').

  On 9/11/2012 at 4:16 AM, Goiter Sanchez said:

'Within A Sound' has always been a favorite of mine (from 'In Pine Effect').

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFkXhbIifsU

Fantastic one indeed !

Slag boom van loon is IMO one of the best "idm" albums ever made. Light of India is magnificent